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PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Checking type safety of foreign function calls
We present a multi-lingual type inference system for checking type safety across a foreign function interface. The goal of our system is to prevent foreign function calls from int...
Michael Furr, Jeffrey S. Foster
ASE
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
PLFaultCAT: A Product-Line Software Fault Tree Analysis Tool
Industry currently employs a product line approach to software development and deployment as a means to enhance quality while reducing development cost and time. This effort has cr...
Josh Dehlinger, Robyn R. Lutz
RTAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The System-Level Simplex Architecture for Improved Real-Time Embedded System Safety
Embedded systems in safety-critical environments demand safety guarantees while providing many useful services that are too complex to formally verify or fully test. Existing appl...
Stanley Bak, Deepti K. Chivukula, Olugbemiga Adeku...
PLDI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
DieHard: probabilistic memory safety for unsafe languages
Applications written in unsafe languages like C and C++ are vulnerable to memory errors such as buffer overflows, dangling pointers, and reads of uninitialized data. Such errors ...
Emery D. Berger, Benjamin G. Zorn
FTCS
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
Improving Software Robustness with Dependability Cases
Programs fail mainly for two reasons: logic errors in the code, and exception failures. Exception failures can account for up to 2/3 of system crashes [6], hence are worthy of ser...
Roy A. Maxion, Robert T. Olszewski